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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 184 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PERRON (a See also:French word meaning properly a "large See also:stone," Ital. Petrone, from See also:Lat. See also:Petra, Fr. See also:pierre, stone)  , in See also:architecture, 1 See also:term applied to a raised See also:platform reached by steps in front of the entrance to a See also:building . The See also:grand See also:flight of See also:external steps entering the mansions of the See also:medieval See also:nobility or high officials was considered in itself a See also:mark of See also:jurisdiction, as it is said that See also:sentence was there pronounced against criminals, who were afterwards executed at the See also:foot of the steps—as at the See also:Giant's Stairs of the See also:Doge's See also:palace at See also:Venice .

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